Russians Cheer As America Burns

Putin rooting for Trump, white nationalists

Manny Otiko
Democracy Guardian
Published in
4 min readJun 16, 2020

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Trump, Russia
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (The White House/Flickr)

Looking at all the recent highly-charged incidents captured on film — white people spitting at Black protesters, cars ramming Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and other white people spewing the n-word — it’s easy to believe this country is on the verge of a race war. I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I believe that certain powers would love to see America ripped apart by internal forces.

Russians Rooting for America to fail

Daily Beast writer and Russian media expert Julia Davis, recently posted some views from the Russian media on the anti-police protests.

“‘Negroes are raging all over the place in their country. Should we get involved?’ pondered the host of a Russian state TV show 60 Minutes, Olga Skabeeva,” she stated.

Davis also said Russians are delighted at the chaos they see in America.

“‘The breakup of the United States of America is already under way,’ said Oleg Nilov, member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,” according to Davis.

However, this isn’t the first time Russia’s tried to destabilize the United States. In 2016, Russia used its troll army to stoke tensions on both political sides. Russian trolls created…

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Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.